Monthly Archives: April 2012
Karma (or, What Goes Around Comes Around)
A friend sent a photo of a newspaper clipping as a forward today. I could only find a copy of the text in discussion forums. But the gist of it was the phenomenon of "karma."
Karma is most easily defined by the Hindu roots of the law of cause and effect. Or, as we Westerners understand it, something happening to us because of something else we did.
Internally and Externally
In the Satipatthana Sutta (alternate translation with commentary), the terms "internally" and "externally" appear about two dozen times each. A typical use of these terms is as follows:
In this way he remains focused internally on the body in & of itself, or externally on the body in & of itself, or both internally & externally on the body in & of itself.
